Album Review | Lil Wayne, 'I Am Not a Human Being II'

6:07 PM,
Mar. 28, 2013

Written by

Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times

On "I Am Not a Human Being II," the famously out-there Lil Wayne boasts, as he has countless times over the last decade, that he's different from the rest of us - weirder, funnier, richer, sexier. Yet this month, the rapper revealed just how human he is when a series of seizures put him in the hospital.

Though it was recorded well before his health scare, "I Am Not a Human Being II" feels like an effort to restore some invincibility to Lil Wayne. "Look me in my face, I ain't got no worries," he insists in "No Worries." In the title track, he even addresses his drug use, admitting "Medicine, I treat it like ...